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Tuesday, March 26, 2013

From Sid Peterson Memorial Hospital to the Blue Bonnet Hotel -- 1956

If you were to climb the hospital and take a photograph of the downtown Kerrville area in 1956, pointing your camera toward the Blue Bonnet Hotel -- this is what you would see. This photo was taken during the county's centennial by Starr Bryden.

2 comments:

It’s so much fun to blow up old pics like this and find small details like the VA in the distance. I wonder if it was taken around Christmas because of the star on top of the Blue Bonnet hotel. You can tell its winter because of the tree foliage. Its must not be very cold the pedestrians seem lightly dressed. Note the AC units in the Bank windows. I think it’s safe to say that many of these buildings had no air conditioning. Other points of internist to me – all the men are wearing hats, the parking meters and the wind mill to the left of the hotel over the roofline of the vogue, oh and one more thing the picture was taken at 8:50 in the a.m.